Although Maurice Wilkins shared ... nucleic acid structure when Rosalind Franklin, an expert in X-ray crystallography, joined the unit. The misunderstanding. What Wilkins did not know was that ...

When it comes to her place in the history of the double helix's delineation, Rosalind Franklin has not received ... he went out to dinner with Maurice Wilkins and pressed him for the ...

In the United Kingdom, two laboratories vied for the distinction: the lab of Rosalind Franklin, a crystallographer assigned to biological discoveries and her colleague Maurice Wilkins at Kings College ...

Rosalind Franklin always ... on DNA with a graduate student. Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the ...

Maurice Wilkins, Franklin’s colleague at King’s College London, showed the image and other unpublished files to James Watson and Francis Crick – without her knowledge. Even if asked what her most ...

Rosalind Franklin ... and virology, Franklin passed away from ovarian cancer in 1958 before receiving the recognition she ...

A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind ... Franklin was “an equal member of a quartet who ...

A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...

James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins each played a key role in the understanding of DNA and genetic illness. The discovery of DNA’s structure was significant in ...